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title: After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrilla… — Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973, the capital of the rebel territories was declared to be Madina do Boe, while Bissau remained the colonial capital. Who acts: Madina, Bissau, anti-colonial guerrillas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bissau» with its d
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# Bissau, sentence 32

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From Wikipedia, [«Bissau»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissau), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973, the capital of the rebel territories was declared to be Madina do Boe, while Bissau remained the colonial capital.

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**Who acts:** Madina, Bissau, anti-colonial guerrillas · **What happens:** declare, be, remain · **To what, where:** capital, colonial capital, independence

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bissau». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madina, Bissau, anti-colonial guerrillas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bissau:32
# text = After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973, the capital of the rebel territories was declared to be Madina do Boe, while Bissau remained the colonial capital.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	declaration	declaration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	anti-colonial	anti-colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	guerrillas	guerrilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	PAIGC	PAIGC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	Madina	Madina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	Boe	Boe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	Bissau	Bissau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the capital of the rebel territories |  |  | after the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973 |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Madina |  |  |  |  | Boe *obj*; do *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | past | Bissau | the colonial capital |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=Attribute |
| 4 | **declare** |  | the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973 | independence |  |  |  |  | nom declaration «communication transitive»: of=patient by=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bissau», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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